All right. Good afternoon.
I'm Executive Assistant Chief Ly
Satterwhite over patrol operati.
With me today is Commander Steve
Spears over Homicide Division,
Assistant Chief Yasser Bashir or
Patrol Region 3 and Commander Re
Hardy over the West Side Divisi.
We are out here at 100202 Forumk
on an officer involved shooting.
I was at the very beginning.
We are very thankful.
Our officer was injured,
but not seriously.
Information is preliminary,
but I'll tell you what we know.t
12:44 PM today we received a cal
on the of a suspicious person
with a weapon and the
apartment given was 297.
It was not clear at that time if that
was the person calling or that s
the person that was being called upon
because it was an anonymous cal.
Officers were dispatched at 12:M
and arrived within 5 minutes and no one
met them outside and as they lod
around and asked for a call bac,
officers received another call
from dispatch or that stated tht
somebody had been firing a gun.
Shots fired out here. Officers,
in the absence of any other information,
approached 29 apt 297 to figuret
if that was the person that was
calling as they were approachin.
This apartment, which is in a nw
spot inside the apartment compl,
a large dog from outside approa.
Our officer started barking.
That's what this was just as the
officer was about to knock on the door.
Right after the barking,
the door opened.
A suspect appeared in the doorwy
with a handgun and, it appears,
fired one time at the officer.
The officer returned several fi,
firing several times as he
moved to a position of cover.
Officers began giving voice
commands and within a minute the
suspect came out of the apartme,
dropped a gun and surrendered.
Our officer was slightly injured
in the right forearm from from
that shot it appears to be,
but thankfully there. I said he
had shrapnel in his arm that our
other officers were able to rem.
He is still on the scene and
he appears to be OK otherwise,
but seriously shaken up.
We again we're very thankful
for that he is OK.
Our suspect was not hit.
He is a male in his 30s to 40s
running a call history on this
location and their own Our susp.
It appears that he has been
handled three times by police.
At least one of them appears
to be a mental illness,
some type of call that he was in crisis.
But right now he is in custody
again and he is he is not injur.
The entities that will be
investigating this will be our
Homicide Special Investigations Unit.
The District Attorney's office l
do a parallel separate investigation.
Our Houston Forensic Science Cer
will be here to process the sce.
A firearm was recovered and
we are still processing.
Again,
no one else is injured that
we are aware of at this time.
We've already checked the apartt
and around and no one else has
came forward to claim any injur.
And we'll just continue to ask
for anybody that might know
some more that can give us more
information on this call.
Our officer is a 15 year office.
He will be placed on administrae
duties which is according to poy
and his body worn camera will be
released within 30 days which is our policy.
And with that I will take quest.
Was
anyone else in the home at the time of the
shooting? Right now we only have
knowledge of the suspect that
was in and came out that fired.
We did check the apartment a couple of times,
no one else was in the home.
And no one else has come forward
from what you've seen of this man's history.
Was there anything that's said e
shouldn't have had a legal gun
or we're still working through t
that's that's For more informatn
we'll have to do the investigation and
and maybe all of that will come.
At this point we're just thankfl
because our officer was just trg
to figure out what was going ond
the door open and the and it aps
the suspect just started firing.
It doesn't sound like the 911 caller.
It sounds like he could
have given more information.
Is there anything you want to s?
People calling, that's
a great question and thank you for that.
We always need as much information as
the public has and can share fo.
We want to prepare our officers.
They're already going into a
dangerous situation every day
with these types of calls.
The more information we have,
the better prepared we can be ad
hopefully save not just our officers lives,
but the lives of the public that
we are encountering every day.
To be clear, the officer wasn'tt
by it appears that he was hit.
Grazed by a by a bullet.
That's what it appears at this .
Obviously more information will come,
but there was metal removed from
his arm, his right forearm.
There was no attack.
It just approached, barking.
Let me Yes, if it's if it's
a dog with some type of wrap
on its torso. Sweater. Yes.
But, and it is very likely and e
still trying to figure this out,
but it's very likely that that
that dog belongs to the suspect.
Again, that's that's our,
that's our appeal to the public
For more information Right now.
We don't know why he was shooti.
Could he have been in crisis.
We don't know any of those thin.
That's for the investigation.
But if anybody knows anything.
They can call in seven 1/3 at 843131,
our non-emergency number and
provided information we'll take.
We'll take the tips line too.
We'll take information anyway we can get it.
I don't have that information at this time. e
can get that and share that lat.
It was three officers that responded.
Again, they were here within 5 minutes,
but it was our one officer
that was closest to the door.
And he would, you know, he was t
up there in that little walkway,
right there by the door.
Any message about this
could have been a lot worse,
a very different type of situat,
especially with so many
neighbors in this area.
And your officer, you know,
we all, every day, we're askinge
public's help in every way poss,
be mindful of their own safety,
be mindful of their neighbor's safety,
report suspicious activity
in this particular case.
Right now, what we have is an
anonymous caller that did,
and we're thankful for that.
But we'll take more information.
Even if you don't want to give your name,
please tell us all you know abot
the incident, a description of
people that might be doing this.
You know, prepare us as best as
possible and give us the best ce
to deal with this the right way.
Thank
you.
All right. Thank you all.